| 词汇 | we have met the enemy and he is us |
| 词源 | we have met the enemy and he is us. Another way of saying we (humankind) are our own worst enemies. Cartoonist Walt Kelly invented the expression for his Pogo comic strip. Centu- ries before him, poet John Milton wrote in Religio Medici (1642) “yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.” |
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